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Brian Enigma

WHACK it!

September 24, 2009

You may or may not have seen my tweet/twitpic about learn­ing to whack a cou­ple of days ago.  It was from a flier that Human Resources (pre­sum­ably) left sit­ting on the color printer.  This morn­ing, while wait­ing for our stand-up meet­ing, some­one thought to track down the source.  A quick Google search later, we had […]

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Holmes on homes

September 24, 2009

There is a really excel­lent Sher­lock Holmes quote that, for the life of me, I can­not seem to find ref­er­ence to1.  Although the quo­ta­tion itself is not as famous as some of the other Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quo­ta­tions, it is quite prac­ti­cal and I find I use it with great fre­quency.  The gen­eral gist […]

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“I Wish…” [Updated]

September 23, 2009

The other morn­ing, I woke up and had to deal with an unpleas­ant fresh spill in the cor­ner of the kitchen.  As I scrubbed, I thought to myself in a very con­ver­sa­tional style: “I wish I could wake up EVERY day to a pud­dle of warm cat pee that needs sop­ping up.  That was sarcasm […]

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Followup: my podcast subscriptions

September 22, 2009

After post­ing a blogroll of sorts on Fri­day, list­ing all RSS feeds I sub­scribe to, I thought I would fol­low that with a list of pod­casts I sub­scribe to.  At least, in my cur­rent brain­dead state, it is going to be a lot eas­ier to dump a bunch of links than post about this past […]

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My RSS subscriptions

September 18, 2009

I got into a lunchtime dis­cus­sion of RSS today.  Appar­ently, one of my cowork­ers (hi, Helen!) had never really heard of RSS before.  As we explained the con­cept to her, we started to share some of our favorite news sites, blogs, and other things with RSS feeds.
I decided this might be of inter­est to a larger […]

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Last weekend’s DASH puzzle hunt

September 18, 2009

Some­thing that I men­tioned to a num­ber of peo­ple in real life, but I do not think I blogged or tweeted about much was the DASH puz­zle hunt that I attended last week­end.  DASH stands for “Dif­fer­ent Area, Same Hunt.”  As the name some­what implies, a num­ber of dif­fer­ent cities around the coun­try par­tic­i­pated in […]

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Exploring Scribblenauts –or– adventures in scribblespace

September 17, 2009

I picked up Scrib­ble­nauts the other night.  In case you have been liv­ing under a rock, this is the game in which each level you are given a goal (retrieve the star, stop the ants, open the door, get past the tor­nado, avoid the bee and piranha, etc.) and you are given free rein to […]

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The hidden cost of the Kindle: computing glasses

September 16, 2009

So it turns out that there is a hid­den cost to the Ama­zon Kin­dle.  I have been read­ing quite a lot more in the past few months.  A typ­i­cal week­day rou­tine might have been star­ing at com­puter screens all day at work, com­ing home, doing a few chores, help­ing out with din­ner, then watch­ing a […]

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The little details, like hyphens and em-dashes

September 15, 2009

As you may or may not know, I got myself a Kin­dle a few months back.  To be more spe­cific, it was the Kin­dle DX — a bit more expen­sive, but the big­ger screen and native PDF sup­port was more than worth it in my case.  My thought at the time was that it would […]

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I haz a corm!

September 15, 2009

The squir­rels and I, we have a love/hate rela­tion­ship.  In gen­eral, I like them, and I like hav­ing them around, but I really dis­like it when they steal from the bird feeder.  As such, I do a few things to pro­tect the feeder, which some­times esca­lates to shoot­ing the squir­rels with a squirt gun.  The […]

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900,000 Chutes & Ladders per hour

September 13, 2009

Every Thurs­day at work, dur­ing our lunch hour, sev­eral of us get together to play board games.  We play a dif­fer­ent game each week, and aside from a few tries at new games, we tend to rotate through the same three or four games each week.  In an attempt to add a lit­tle vari­ety, we […]

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“Use our brand to build your [backward] business”

September 3, 2009

I saw this on the back of a van this morn­ing on the way to work.

“Use our Brand to Build Your Busi­ness.”
Let’s put aside the ran­dom bold and cap­i­tal­iza­tion for a sec­ond and focus on the brand.  If you really did use the depicted brand­ing iron, the result­ing brand would read back­wards.  Great job, guys.

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